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Hello, I'd like to talk about this, please contact me on my E-mail. I have the same challenge for myself for my home country. I'll share some of my own observa
by thiago_fm 7y ago
Hello, I'd like to talk about this, please contact me on my E-mail. I have the same challenge for myself for my home country.
I'll share some of my own observations:
It's a better idea to instead of fixing a problem with a top down vision such as Polio or water treatment(like Bill Gates), to enable people to think for themselves and fix their own problems.
The problem with a lack of food, services, unemployment etc, I see it as the lack of a market. If you can create a business of any kind, you will be helping with that. If you want to strike directly at a problem, I recommend that you become a politician instead. If you want to create a business, any business that employs people and doesn't do any kind of abuse will help greatly.
Many of the undeveloped places on my home country without good living conditions are due to a single reason... it is jobs!
For instance, if people like buying Angola soap, you can produce it, that will generate jobs because people will need to produce it, you will need to do accounting for your business etc. Your employees and partners will live around your area and also buy goods and services from it, with a healthy market, that will also bring taxes to governments/politicians that can also give something back to people.
You need to step up as an entrepreneur and look around with the people you know, the country you live in etc, how could you make something that either people in the internal market need, or that people abroad would buy. I'd favor international trade because that brings a lot of positive things to your country, not only money, but makes it more recognisable and make it easier for other businesspeople to create opportunities and invest on it.
About your last comment, a company that cleans the streets or a hospital that cures diseases from the poor can profit by charging money. You can't solve poverty in the long run by providing free services, you should instead strive to have a product people use(could be a cheap hospital, so more poor people could afford), so you create a market for it.
Undeveloped areas usually have many possible markets and a lack of $(or people with time and skills).